"I don't deserve all this," sighs the injured biker on April 18 in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, in a collision with a police vehicle. In conditions still to be clarified, the 30-year-old man fell from his two-wheeler before colliding with a pole. Severely injured in the leg, he had to be operated on several times.
A video shot just after the tragedy where we see the driver lying on the ground has been seen several million times and has ignited many districts of Hauts-de-Seine and Seine-Saint-Denis. For four nights, young people fired fireworks at the police accused of having voluntarily dropped the biker. Several vehicles were also set on fire. From his hospital bed, the victim called for "calm" those confronting the police.
Well known to the police for his heavy criminal record, the young man "not a choirboy" in his words, expects on this case that "justice is done". An investigation was opened by the Nanterre prosecution to determine the exact circumstances of the shock. The police present and witnesses to the shock deliver contradictory versions. The General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) was also seized.
